There was no pastry in the Pop Tart box that landed Linda Lee Whitlatch behind bars.

The 30-year-old plead guilty to three drug-related charges last week after she was accused of trying to sneak a Pop Tart box with more than 7 grams of meth in it into the Clarinda Correctional Facilty in Page County.

Whitlatch — who has previously listed addresses in Des Moines, but currently reports living in Carlisle — was given a 15-year prison sentence that was suspended, placing her on probation for two years. On Aug. 13, she dropped the drug-filled Pop Tart box into a garbage can on Clarina Correction Facility property and officers believed an inmate was supposed to receive it, court records show.

Instead of sending her to the Iowa Women's Correctional Facility at Mitchellville, Judge Richard Davidson decided Whitlatch should go to the Fresh Start Women's Center in Polk County for an undetermined amount of time.

The facility, which was previously known as the Women's Residential Correctional Facility, houses offenders who are expected to get a job, pay weekly rent and participate in treatment programs. Each woman is assigned a probation/parole officer upon entering the facility and can bring with them a maximum of two children under the age of 5. Whitlatch has one child whom she supports, according to finical statements she provided in court.

She is currently at the Polk County Jail waiting for an open bed at the residential correctional facility, court records show.

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